Buried Treasure: Leather & Lace

One day I was cleaning out Rye Bread's sister's closet (to ahem, store some of my own stuff). Don't worry - she's up north, so it's not like I put her stuff away as she watched! I found a trashbag of clothes (aka: BURIED TREASURE!), and pulled out a few dresses; turns out that they fit to the T! Also, they're from her high school days...talk about trends circling around! (And weird that I fit into her high school clothes.)

I absolutely love this dress - definitely my favorite out of the bunch. So easy to update with a cardigan, but this time I paired it with leather jacket to balance the romanticism of the lace.

Also, what is going on with my hair?

laundry dress (from the 90's), ashley jacket, shoedazzle shoes

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Sweet Rose

Wore this last week before heading out to Brentwood Country Mart. A super cute & quaint shopping area (with really expensive shops). I don't know what happened to my go-to spot for hot chocolate, City Bakery, it went away. :( Instead, we went to Sweet Rose Ice Cream - a creamery that purchases a lot of their produce from local vendors. They also make a lot of their stuff in-house (marshmallows, cones, chocolate chips, etc.)

old dress, cotton-on sweater, f21 belt, shoedazzle shoes

look at my new shoedazzle shoes - they're really stepping up their game

So at Sweet Rose Ice Cream, I tried their mint & chip ice cream and was in a for a surprise! It wasn't what we could consider the normal "mint & chip" but ACTUAL mint...I'm talking it was like licking a mint leaf. But after the shock of NOT having Baskin-Robbins type ice cream, it was really nice & refreshing. They made their own chocolate shavings there...and evidently forgot to shave a HUGE CHUNK of chocolate in my scoop. It was like finding a candy bar in my ice cream cone! A good surprise? Maybe...a chocking hazard? Definitely.

rye bread's banana split

Then we drove down to Melrose to London Sole to purchase my first pair of FANSHY black flats. I tend to go through my flats like I go through my men (haha, not really, but I just wanted to use that joke); I've been going back & forth between Tory Burch flats, but I felt like everyone had a pair, and also I'm afraid the emblem is just going to come flying off one day & sever someone's head. You don't know, IT COULD HAPPEN!

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PMN: Yellow Blouse

Our friends over at phi-style and wewearthings have decided to sell some of their featured items on prettymuchnew...and srsly, how could one resist? Great prices & I already know everything looks good!

I immediately purchased this yellow blouse and couldn't wait to figure out how to wear it. Issa paired it with denim shorts, but since I probably couldn't go trotting into work like that, I opted for a high-waisted black skirt.

pmn blouse, express skirt, shoedazzle heels, olivers people glasses

And I totally bought this black silk tunic; so stay tuned for that...basically, I'm just re-blogging their pieces. Ha. Also, there are a lot of links in this post.

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p.s. those are rye bread's glasses [shh]